Best Place to Learn Black History (2008)

The repository for much history of the Afri-can diaspora, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, is a branch of the NYPL named after one of Harlem's great scholars, Puerto Rican­born Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. The library offers access to a full range of art objects, audiovisuals, newspapers, periodicals, books, exhibitions, and cultural pro- grams and performances.